Artmage Deck #773859 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 53/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz boss monsters from the Extra Deck (Nerva 3300 ATK, Jupiter 3500 ATK, Junora 3100 ATK, Varudras 3000 ATK) and Vidolium 5000 ATK reached through Power Patron and Artmage summons; Recursion-based grind: Medius the Pure and Artmage Litera return from the GY to keep the Fusion engine going, and Artmage Graflare and Artmage Finmel add board presence
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Artmage Power Patron or Medius the Pure as a searcher/summon enabler, use Artmage Acropolis, Varnish or Vandalism to search Artmage pieces, then Fusion Summon a boss from the Extra Deck (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Rely on Maxx C as the only hand trap plus Artmage Impasto and Artmage Pact as negation triggers, then rebuild through Medius and Litera from the GY into a Fusion or Link boss (Inferred; no going-second combo data)
• Recovery: Recur Medius the Pure and Artmage Litera from the GY, search through 20 searcher-text cards, and re-summon Power Patron monsters to rebuild the engine (Inferred from text)
• After siding: None: the deck carries 0 side cards and the format supplies no side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Artmage and Power Patron system, not as an average of its card scores. Its opening is well supported: 20 searcher-text cards give a 0.98 chance of at least one searcher in an opening 5 (Inferred, hypergeometric). It converts into a strong closing board of Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz bosses with high ATK, which is why closing power scores 76. Interaction is layered (9 negation-text cards, Impasto, Pact and Litera) but thin on the going-second side, with only one hand trap (Maxx C) and no Ash Blossom, so going-second board breaking is held at 55. Consistency is held back by 15 singleton slots, three copies each of the 3-Tribute Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode and Mulcharmy Fuwalos, and a 31 percent exact-archetype purity, which add dead-card risk. No combo boards, tournament share or dated meta were supplied, so the ceiling and floor are text inference and meta is Provisional. Archetype popularity was not credited, and no side deck means no post-side score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 62.4, Going First ≈ 64, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Engine compactness (-2); Engine conflicts (-3); Dead-card load (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.98 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Twenty searcher-text cards make the opening highly accessible
• Large Extra Deck boss package with high ATK across Fusion, Link, Synchro and Xyz
• Layered negation and recursion (Impasto, Pact, Litera, Medius) give resilience after one disruption
• Single Limited card (Maxx C) at 1 copy keeps the list fully legal

Weaknesses

• Only one hand trap, and no Ash Blossom or Mudragon, weakens the going-second plan
• Three copies each of the Sphere Mode dragon and Nervedo add conditional dead cards
• Exact-archetype purity is only 31 percent, with several unrelated sub-archetypes
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Artmage Power Patron (2 copies) and Medius the Pure (2 copies) carry the Fusion opening; P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.24 each
• Fusion Summon of Extra Deck bosses depends on Artmage Non-Finito and Diactorus being live, and both are single or double copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 and legal under master-duel size and copy rules; Maxx C is Limited and run at 1 copy, which is legal; Usage stats show a 14 of 25 core-card match, but the in this deck flag misses Extra Deck cards, so the true count is about 23 of 25
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher-text card in opening 5) ≈ 0.98; Consistency and brick claims from copy histogram and card text; Ceiling and closing power read from Extra Deck boss ATK values and card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13 at neutral value)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists, so going-first, going-second and matchup results are unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics mark Extra Deck cards (S:P Little Knight, Nerva, Predaplant Dragostapelia, Junora, Diactorus and others) as not in this deck, although the deck export lists them; the in this deck match appears to check only the Main Deck, so core coverage is understated Archetype string for Shade the Obscure is corrupted ('| supports_archetypes Power Patron'), so archetype purity is slightly misstated Deck title is null